Six SATA drives installed in the Mac Pro system, two SATA drives in the Optical bay along with the Optical Drive and four in the factory bays, two SATA drives in the Optical Drive bay are connected with two on-board SATA channels (All six drives have native SATA support), user can stripe all six drives for maximum DATA transfer rate,or stripe two drives in the Optical Drive bay for faster boot (2x WD Rapter 10k) and stripe four drives in factory drive bays, or any other combination desired.

MaxConnect for Mac Pro Optical Drive Bay Features

1) Two piece construction, Precision machined Aluminum.
2) Slip in Design in the Optical Bay, no modification needed.
3) Optimized for Air Flow.
4) Surface Treated for electrical insulation.
5) Flexible Upgradability and multiple configuration.
6) Install two SATA drives in the Optical Drive bay with the Optical drive (Optical Drivewith6 total SATA drives, with two on board SATA ports: No SATA Controller required).
7) Install two SATA drives in the Optical Drive bay with one or two ATA/IDE Drive(s) (8 internal drives: No SATA Controller required).
8) Install four SATA drives in the Optical Drive bay (8 total internal SATA drives: Two or more internal ports SATA Controller required).

MaxUpgrades brings new high performance product MaxConnect SAS/SATA link , this enable user to connect PCI Express SAS/SATA Controllers to the four internal drive bays of the Mac Pro System.

The product offers flexibility in Data speed and data protection, user can now have redundancy of RAID 5 or RAID 6, with the choice of fastest high performance prcessor based hardware RAID SAS/SATA Controllers.

Six drives are installed in the Mac Pro system,two SATA II drives in the Optical bay along with four SATA drives in the factory bays, two SATA drives in the Optical Drive bay are connected with two on-board SATA II 3 Gb/sec DATA Channels or SATA II ports, Six drives are striped for the maximum Susbtained DATA transfer rate of 600+ MB/sec.

Eight drives installed in the Mac Pro system, two SATA drives in the Optical bay along with four SATA drives in the factory bays, two SATA drives in the Optical Drive bay are connected with two on-board SATA channels and two IDE/ATA Drive in the Optical Bay ( requires removal of Optical Drive, mounts on the same Optical drive mount )(All six SATA drives have native SATA support and ATA/IDE drives is on-baord IDE channel (native) , user can boot from an IDE/ATA Drive and stripe all six drives for maximum DATA transfer rate of 600+ MB/sec (Sustained Data Transfer Rate).